I played a beggar pretty intensely for about a year and I don't recall it dropping karma so low as it does here. This was nearly 10 years ago and in UO:R though.
A search here only really produced this previous posting -
http://forum.uosecondage.com/viewtopic. ... w=previousDerrick wrote:14Repent wrote:But you loose Karma and Fame when you use begging... Is that really accurate? What's the max gold one could get if they were Glorious Lord?
I just read this essay on Stratics:
http://uo.stratics.com/content/professions/beggar.shtml
I doubt that the begging skill has changed much over the years, but I couldn't find any older info on it. If anyone else has any more era specific info please share it. This skill is already on my list as something to look at, but since it's so under utilized, it wasn't really a priority. After reading this essay I'm going bump it up a little.
The Stratics essay does mention karma loss but not how much. On the related point - I am certain that (at least from UO:R) using begging didn't drop fame at all. I don't know if it still does on UOSA (the above quote's about two years old) as I haven't gained any to lose with my beggar.
The UO patch notes in the Wiki here produced nothing relevant.
The UO Herald Guide suggests that begging only prevents a character from achieving higher karma levels. The info doesn't seem to be dated though -
http://www.uoherald.com/guide/guide.php?guideId=59Beware, Begging will not endear you to the general public - if you are at the second "positive" tier or above, Begging will lower your Karma. (See here for the Fame/Karma chart.) So using Begging will lower you from "Kind" to "Fair", but if you're "Fair" or lower, it won't affect you at all.
That is vaguely familiar?^
I am almost sure that when I took my beggar on a liche killing fest to acquire 4th level fame I had to spend a while snooping/npc killing etc to return myself to a neutral karma level ("The Renowned" seemed to fit an RP beggar better than any more fancy titles). I wouldn't have done this if just using the skill would take me back down to neutral. I don't recall ever being in actual negative karma with the character and he used the begging skill a hell of a lot. But again, it was long ago.
Has anyone got any info to offer on this?
Ta.